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the frown upon the Marine Lot tenure. question of More than once it has threatened to ripen ation. I know enough info litigation inteliting of therogative Law to be able to say that proceedings under that law are of a slow and most costly character. I hesitate not to admit that, when I voted for that very section of the Ordinance for fees and costs I had in mind the seaboard of this city, not the hazard in which the Government then were of universal law suits. It was in the same spirit that I framed Section IX. of Ordinance No. 8 of 1886, for enabling the Crown to recover hereditaments by the cheap way of ejectment.
I do not wonder that the promoters of the meeting were able to persuade the rest that the community had a common interest with the former in wasting the resources of the local Treasury in a litigation from which the community can never profit, for I find that neither Mr. Antrobus, nor the Lot Holders, nor their professional Adviser, on that occasion thought fit to explain to the meeting at large that the supposed grievance of having to pay costs to the Crown existed before the Ordinance.
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